October 2, 2026 • 54 mins
Bobby puts science to the test with a live experiment that leads to a big reveal. Bobby and Eddie break down how much Ella Langley has made from “Choosin’ Texas.” We also get into country music’s biggest controversies of the year so far, Hollywood and Nashville’s open secrets, and the most influential radio personalities of all time. Does Bobby make the list?! Plus, the bands we’d bring back if we could.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, on this episode, I am going to conclude a
science experiment that I have done myself, but we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Do it live here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome, Eddie Beck.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, what's up, man?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So this is what happened in the last week. Are
you familiar with Muse?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The band?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No, the app. So it's Zuckerberg. It's Facebook meta and
they launched what's basically an AI digital assistant.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I love to try everything out. So I saw Muse.
I saw the talk about it. I downloaded it immediately.
I put my credit card in it. And basically you
just tell it what to do and it does it.
That's kind of the dream of it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it's the gap between you and AI.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's the gap between me and getting something done.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But AI is not just doing work and feeding it
back to me. It's actually doing the job physically.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So this is what I did in Muse. By the way,
not a commercial in any way, because this could end
terribly because I've not seen the final product that we're.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
About to reveal. Oh no, you're the one that ends
the world? Oh no.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Missiles start going off randomly.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Just because you got Muse.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So I got on and I had a picture of
me playing at our show with Brooks and Dunn. And
I want to put some cool pictures up in our studio.
of me on stage or really cool moments from my
career with these artists. And so all I did was
find a high res picture. I thought it was high
res and I uploaded it to Muse and I said, Hey,
would you please frame this and send it back to
(01:41):
my house?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Just that simple. That's it. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So it hits me back and goes, the picture you
have uploaded is not high res. I can use AI
to fix the resolution if you'd like, and then I'll
take care of it. That's basically the message. So I say, sure.
And I understand that it has my credit card and
it's going to do what it does. So I didn't
tell him what store to go to. I just said,
make it big.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So what I'm about to reveal here, because we haven't
opened the box yet, is everything that it did when
I said, please make it big, frame it and send
it back to my house. And you have permission to
do next day or three day air.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can I ask you, what was the source of the picture?
Like Instagram? What was the source?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I think Reed had taken some pictures. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So it was already kind of, Better quality than most.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was a good picture, but it wasn't high res
enough to blow up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That's when it said, hey, I'm going to up this
up and then I'm going to down this down and
I'm just going to send it to your house.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So you can slide that in here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And this is it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All I did was say, make this picture. And it said, okay.
It messaged me and said, hey, are you okay with
this price? Was the only thing it messaged me. And
I said, yeah. And so that was it. I don't
know what's in here.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You told it the size and everything?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, I just didn't make it big.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, so you didn't tell it like three foot by seven.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Because I don't know those dimensions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, right, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's like if I had an assistant, I would just say, hey,
you might make it this big. Okay. And frame it.
So this should be a picture of good quality.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Come on, AI, don't let us down.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I have not opened this. This is not a trick.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Can you pull that open?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, I see it. So it's in there. Step one
is good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Let me grab that picture. Oh, now it's like... This
is how you know this wasn't fixed. It has that
cable on it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The band.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We need scissors.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
A scissor? Or scissors would be nice.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah. More scissors.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, because it has that.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I normally have a knife on me, just not today.
Just kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What if you were a pocket knife guy?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I always carry a knife.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
In school, we had knives in our pockets and guns
in our trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Dude, my dad was a pocket knife guy and... He
would open doors with it. I mean, anything you needed.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Arkansas Keith was a pocket knife guy. Arkansas Keith then
graduated to a full-on Swiss Army knife.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Of course, that's what my dad did, too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where it was like, we need a corkscrew.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You need a toothpick.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now, if we were hunting, it was different. It was
a much bigger knife.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Are we so ill-prepared, purposefully, that we don't have scissors
in the whole building?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
We have them in the front.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I just got.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
To get my keys. Oh, you got to go to
a different building to get the scissors?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We have to go unlock a door.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Let me take a little trip. Do you want me
to try to pull it?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, we'll let them come back because this proves to people-
That we weren't ready. That we weren't ready at all.
The box just came in this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What do you expect it to be? You expect it
to be perfect? Great. Like if you ask an assistant,
I want this big, you expect it to be what
you asked for.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I think it's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then do you even know about Muse?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I've heard of it. I've heard people talk about it, but- Man,
I'm not like you. I don't jump on these things
like you do. I see people talk about it. I
see things being done with it. Like right now, you
did something with it. And then I will take that
information and process it six months later. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Will you help me? Will you cut this for me?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's pretty amazing, though, that they found the company and
they found they did everything, everything.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now, in the future, if not already, I'm sure these
AI apps will have deals with certain companies to go
there first.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
If you'll pull that box back.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is that big enough for you, first off? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is about the size I imagined.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When you said big.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know what size this is. Would you hand
me those scissors?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That looks like the back. So the front is facing you.
I'm familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can see the picture.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh, I thought that's what you were asking.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I can see the picture.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What were you asking? What? You said, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't know what size it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh, what size it is.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah. What I'm curious about is if it's high res
enough or if it's like upside down. So now for
those that are just listening and not watching, you're cutting
the bubbles off of it. Here, why don't you take
this and just. I should have a real assistant.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Here, take this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just take it and cut it all off and just
hand it back to me.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That'll be good.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So what do you use AI-wise? Nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Google. When I Google something, it gives you the AI overview.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So that didn't even, I mean, you didn't download anything.
You're still using Google. It just changed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Correct. And it's great. The outline that it gives me
for something, it even does a little bubble. It's like thinking.
Then it gives me the outline. But that's it. I
don't do chat GPT. I don't have it write things
for me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And not that I'm against it. I just don't. It's like,
I'm just not there yet. I don't really need it yet.
If I want a picture done, I.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Actually go to the place. I think you just don't
know how to use it yet.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Dude, the way you're making it sound, like, I'm loving it.
You're making it sound like it can just do anything
you want. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, it's going to need your credit card. Would you
give an app your credit card that quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And then we're also going to get into the money
that Ella Langley's made from Choose in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Gosh, I bet that's so much money.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The song's done pretty well.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
How many weeks at number one?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean... 23... As of right now.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And I know, like, you say that, and I don't
really know exactly what that means because I have nothing
to compare it to. Do you have a song?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Mariah Carey was the winner with All I Want for
Christmas is You. So that would be non-consecutives. So that
would be every year that ends up being a number
one for two.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Or three weeks. Oh, got it, because of Christmas time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, the picture's ready to go. Slide it on over here.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And the big reveal.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Can you see that?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It did it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Does it look grainy or anything?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
My vision's bad.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, man.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That looks like a very clear, high-res picture.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So all I did was get into the app and
upload a picture and say, handle this.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dude, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And it handled it and then sent it to my house.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's amazing. Wow. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I'll hang that. I guess I'll upload more pictures.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Overall, the whole process of asking it, it come into
your door. How long did that take? Four minutes. Four minutes. No, no, no. No,
it didn't come in four minutes. You asked it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You asked for it in four minutes. Well, it took
like the two-night shipping.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Okay, so like just.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think I did this two nights ago.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Dude, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So imagine what they're doing with weapons.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's so scary.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So that's how we want to leave. That's our science experiment.
It works. That's a great picture. This is not an
advertisement for Meta or Muse.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How many more pictures are you going to get made?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Probably three or four.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I may just upload 10 or so and be like,
which ones do you like? Do them the best and
send them back to my house.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You guys think that's cool that all that happened?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Did you tell it how much it could spend?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It ran a number by me. Because I told it
the size, so it ran a number by me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What was the number?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Like $ 220 or something. That's not bad. To have it
blown up, framed, mailed, everything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're supposed to have six fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, dang. So when they come in, eventually, as they will,
I'll just have them sign it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Very cool. And put it up. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You can prop that up against the door.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's number one.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I do want to talk about Ella Langley and how
much money she has made from choosing Texas. So overall
that song has generated about $ 14 million. So that's total
that's brought in by the track for everybody for the
full pie. So the exact portion that goes into Ella
Langley's pocket is different, but I, and I'm going to
(09:36):
do some estimating myself.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So gross revenue breakdown at a $ 13. 9 million. I would
say publishing is going to get about six of that.
Six million? Label is going to get about eight.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh, dang. So that's the whole pie, right?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So far. So far.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The songwriter split. Because Langley co-wrote the song with Miranda Lambert,
Luke Dick, Joy Beth Taylor, that $ 6 million in publishing
royalties is divided among four writers and their publishers. Okay.
So that $ 6 million is going to be split up
in all the ways.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the publishers, is that the company? Like the publishing
company that took that to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, that pays her.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So... The record label split is $ 8 million. So that's
the two here. 23 weeks at number one. I think
once everything is split up, she made around $ 4 million.
That's amazing. Because she's taking money on both sides.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, because she's a writer. And so Miranda, as a writer.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She's just going to get the publishing.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
How much do you think she makes off of it?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Probably the same split on the publishing side. So probably
a million and a half, two million bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's not a bad day.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And that's just as of today. So yeah, that's the
biggest song ever in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And you know, what's funny is I feel like that's
just the lottery, right? Like winning the lottery. You write,
these people write so many songs. They think some songs
are really good. They think some songs are going to
make them a lot of money. Then you have one
like this where you're like, well, I didn't think it'd
be making me that much money, but it does.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I would bet you they finished the song that day
and thought that's just another song. I bet it's pretty good.
That's just a song.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's a pretty good song.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But that's so rare. That's rare that song is in.
No song has ever been number one that long across
the multi-format chart, the all genre.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Ever?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's the biggest song ever on the Billboard Hot 100
since they've started.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Even like Elvis days.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah. Well, it's kind of like football records. You know,
they have the old leather helmet days. That doesn't count
with the records as of today.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Got it. Got it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So modern. It's the biggest song ever. But it beat
out things like Old Town Road, which is there for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Mariah Carey, which she could end up taking the record back.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Because we're still going to have Christmases.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Unless AI ends up shooting missiles and we go into
like a global catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And there are no more Christmases.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I do have the top five country music controversies so
far this year. Us Weekly wrote an article on this.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now we're January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September.
Nine months into this thing? Ten months right at it?
What do you think has been a controversy this year?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Overall or you say just overall?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Country.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Dolly?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Can you think of any? She died. That's not a controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Some people may not believe that she's dead. No, I'm
just kidding. Everyone believes that. Controversy?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Does anything come to mind?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Did anyone fight? Like, I'm sure. Oh, I mean, I
feel like Morgan Wallen's always part of some kind of controversy.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Number one. You just picked Morgan Wallen across the board?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Number one. The piano flip on stage.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh, yes. And then he threw something.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And then he threw the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But you know it's a pretty tame year if that's
the biggest controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So he was playing a live show for one of
them and he, I guess the piano wasn't sounding right
or he couldn't hear it in his ears and he
flipped the piano. The other was the security person had
the phone and they were holding it up and he
goes and grabs the phone and chunks it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I feel like that's theatrics. You know, like.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I felt like it was the piano whenever I saw
it the first time. I didn't realize he was actually upset.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hmm. No, I get being upset, but I mean, you're
not that big of a baby to just throw something over.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But he threw two things.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Was that the same night?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, but if you're just throwing things, I think if
you do two, you're a thrower.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think you're just reacting. It's a bit petulant. You're
just throwing stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Have you ever done that? Gotten so mad that you
threw something?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No, I don't throw or kick or break because I
understand that I have to pay for it later.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's good awareness.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I would like to, but I don't have that rage part.
The only time I punch stuff is when Arkansas loses
a close game And I'd like punch the couch. But
we don't play close games anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So no punching.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah. So number one is Morgan Wallen. Number two is
the Bailey Zimmerman incident. Oh, the hotel room. So he
canceled a concert in May. And that involved him stumbling
onto a stage, damaging a guitar, throwing a microphone, causing
$ 16, 000 in hotel room damage. He apologized, took responsibility. The
criminal charges were dismissed. Apparently he paid it off.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
He apologized. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
The concert itself became secondary to all the events afterward.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I don't remember the concert.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Also, this really didn't hurt him in any way.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
They put him in the news.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The only people that it hurt was the hotel people.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But even then, it paid for.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can you imagine being a housekeeper and going to that
room and being like, great, this is my day? I
have to clean all this up.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Number three is the band Perry's Family Feud.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh, that was a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I'm starting to think this might be set up, though. Really?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
To promote the Brothers song?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Just a little bit. If you were to percentage me
on this, I still think it's 70% real, 30% it
could possibly be a work, like a wrestling work.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That they're both in on it?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. I mean, that would make a lot of sense,
and I would sign off on that.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
He's still posting things about how he was kicked out
of the band. It's kind of the reason that he's
using to promote himself. It doesn't put her in the
greatest light. But I don't think she cares.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It doesn't put her in the greatest light for just
the way it is now?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No, because she forced him out of the band, according
to the story.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, if she's a part
of it, though, like say this is planned, would she
care that it doesn't put her in the greatest light?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Not if she owns part of the entity.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's so true. And again, it's not as if they
committed a crime and they did get a lot of
press from it. I still think it's real, but more
of me thinks this could be a work. Brandon, why
do you think it could be a work? Just because
it's still going? Like he's still trying to milk it?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah. There's just too much theatrics going on. Like it
all seems planned. Like the posts seem planned. Even their
response that they posted a response and then they took
it down. And then he immediately was like, oh, they
took it down. Like it was all– it was just
(15:55):
too staged.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
If she would have addressed it and then never talked
about it again, I think I would have believed it.
But the fact that there's any sort of conversation about
it still feels a bit planned. And I can appreciate that.
I love wrestling.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't mind storylines. But yeah, number three, Neil Perry
has publicly accused his sister, Kimberly, of forcing him out
of the band after nearly three decades. So her husband, Johnny,
could take a place. And so he has got a
band and I see him pop up in my algorithm.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I like the songs. We like the songs.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I heard one song.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Or the song that we heard.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Number four, and I've had a real issue with this one,
the Stella Lefty and the Nepo baby debate.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah. Because there's a difference in having a wealthy family
and being a Nepo baby. And I think those semantics
are what irritates me the most because people like she's
a Nepo baby. Her dad is not in the industry.
A Nepo would be if I hire my daughter to
work in podcasting or media and get her a job
in my company or a friend's company.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Did he have a Groupon for a Being in the
record business?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I don't think so, no.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Because if that was the case, that'd be Nepo.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't think there's a group on to that. If so,
I'd have bought that. So she is the daughter of
a billionaire. Nobody's debating that. And a lot of people
are just going Nepo baby. It's also like Nepo baby
season in America where everybody that has success that has
anybody connected to them in any way. Is a nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Now, I did think that if you have a lot
of money, that does give you an advantage.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It does give you an advantage.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But that is not the definition of nepotism.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Not at all. And there's a lot of artists that
have money. I mean, you could look at Thomas Rhett
and say he's a nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Money. His dad's in the industry. Allowed him to meet songwriters.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That is a nepo baby.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Thomas Rhett is a nepo baby.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We love you, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Who else? Lucas Nelson is a nepo baby.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
She is not.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She's not. Her dad's just rich. Yes. And what I
saw her in an interview say that her dad's not
even part of Groupon anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Is Groupon still a thing?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Who's a part of Groupon anymore?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Not even him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So she's not a nepo baby. And then the other
thing that's irritating to me with her is about her
is that she's become really a punching bag for even
other artists that haven't made it. It's such a bad
look if you're an artist and you're bashing another artist anyway. Oh, yeah.
Like I've seen country artists on TikTok, and their content
that works is them bashing Stella Lefty. Not their music,
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because their music's meant to suck, but their content that's
getting streams is them talking about Stella Lefty, so they
keep doing it. That's a bad look. I'm remembering who.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They are, too.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Like, I got two in my head right now. It's like,
it's their thing now.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Are they artists that we know of?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're just jealous. No, of course not. We don't know them.
That's why they're making Stella Lefty content. Yeah, but there's
so many artists in town whose families are rich as well.
But she's not an industry plant. It's almost impossible to
be an industry plant in music because you can't make
your music connect. You can get an advantage and they
can juice up streams on the digital service providers. You
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can do all of that but you can't make your
music actually connect with people. And I see videos of
elementary kids 120 at a time singing that song.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's a really good song and she can actually sing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So I hate that for her because I think it
was just creating a little momentum and then people saw
that And just wrote it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You're right. And the more I think about it, there
are a lot of Nepo babies in country music.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
There's a lot of Nepo babies in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
In the world, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Because if your parents are successful, they want to help you.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Sure. Anyone would do that.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Your actress hero is a Nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah. She is a Nepo baby. I mean,
her mom, her grandfather, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It doesn't mean you're not talented.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Hillary from Lady A. Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Mean you're not talented.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
No, not at all. And what I'm saying is, is
that nobody attacks them because you're right. Anyone would do
that for their kid. So why are we attacking Stella?
Because her daughter, her dad's a billionaire. Okay. That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And because she added Noah Kahn as a writer, because
that song sounded so much like stick season. So, and
it does. And I think that was a smart thing
to do, but that happens in country music all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Where, Artists have to add another writer because another song
sounded very similar.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So you just add that writer.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Add them in. The thing, though, that I don't feel
is fair, there are a lot of people that will
take clips of her songs and they go, oh, she
stole this one from this person, this one from this person.
But they're taking like a four-second clip and then identifying
a four-second clip in her song that's not even the
main part of the song and going, and they do
sound similar, but find me songs where you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
No, no, no, you can't. There's so much music in
the world.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, and there's so few chords.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yes, there are only a handful of chords.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So that's number four on their list, Estella Lefty and
Nepo Baby. Jelly Roll gets political at number five. He
spent a lot of his career saying he didn't want
to get political. And then he spent a lot of
time with Trump. And then he went on Jimmy Kimmel
and made jokes about Trump.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so he made a lot of not real enemies
because the internet's not real.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The internet's not real. And it's not people who actually
care about what they're, even with Stella Lefty. I had
a conversation with her and I'm like, that's not real.
Any of these people saying this to you, if you
went up and met them in real life, they'd be like, oh,
your songs are awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They would never say that to your face.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So they have Jelly Roll going on Kimmel. After being
with Trump, then making fun of Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I guess the weird thing about that, too, was
that we hadn't heard from Jelly Roll in a while.
And then he came out.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He hadn't heard from Jelly Roll in a while?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
No, because, you know, he went to the divorce.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It stayed in my feed.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh, no, no, the divorce. But he hadn't done anything.
He hadn't done anything publicly really since then. And then
the first thing he does is that.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
There are a lot of videos of him performing his concerts,
doing covers. You ever see those videos?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I see them a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Where people are like. Jelly Roll's only doing covers at
his show. It's like him doing Smash Mouth and Marcy Playground.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Like Green Day.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, Green Day. The honorable mention is Zach Bryan versus
Brantley Gilbert. Now, do you remember when... Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I missed that one.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We talked about it on our show a little bit.
But February 2026, this is when they had that alternative
halftime show, the Turning Point USA, that Brantley Gilbert played.
Brantley and Kid Rock. And Zach Bryan called it the
most cringe blank on the planet. And then Zach Bryan
and one of his buddies did Dirt Road Anthem and
then changed it to Chili on a Hot Dog. Do
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you remember us playing that? Chili on a hot dog.
And they're like standing at the bar. And the reason
they did that, Brantley originally cut the song, had written
the song. And so he responded publicly as well. So
they have that on there.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh my gosh. I feel like Zach Bryan too, just
kind of a lot of controversy around that guy.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You remember Chili on a Hot Dog?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Chili on a hot dog. Now I do.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor.
This is the Bobbycast.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There's a list here of Hollywood's open secrets. And I
thought this was pretty funny. And I'm going to read
you some of these. I don't stand by all of them.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
But this is apparently the things that everybody in Hollywood knows.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Okay, so like, just Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number 10, your favorite celebrity definitely has genital herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's number 10 on the list of Hollywood's open secrets.
Everyone has herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Everyone in Hollywood has herpes?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Celebrities, waiters, everybody has herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Is this a deal where we all have that mouth herpes?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I don't think so. Genital herpes is not mouth herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
This is a terrible secret.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Number nine, a lot of celebrities smell awful.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And I think because the emperor has no clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Explain that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Do you know the story of the emperor has no clothes?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Is that a cartoon, like a Disney movie?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Nobody would tell the emperor that his clothes were bad
or that he had no clothes because the emperor had
yes men everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh, so no one tells them that they smell?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But don't you know? Like, I don't need anyone to
tell me who I smell. Sometimes I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sometimes my wife's like, you smell bad.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And I'm like, I do?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, because you're just used to the smell? I don't
know if I'm used to it. I don't stink all
the time, but sometimes she has to tell me I
smell bad.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
What I'm saying is, it's like when your house, like,
you know, like your house, you think your house smells great,
but when someone comes over, they're like... What's that smell?
Because you're living in it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like someone that has cats or something?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Matthew McConaughey smelled bad.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We've met him a few times. But I feel like
that was purposeful where he was just like, I'm going
to wear my body the way it's supposed to be.
I'm not going to shower.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe that's because he never showers. He just had to
start saying that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Men are concealing their sexuality.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That in Hollywood, guys don't want to say they're gay
because it would hurt their image.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They wouldn't be able to work.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
All men dye their hair. I think there's going to
be a lot of aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The parts of this where guys have breast implants, like
pec implants or calf implants.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That's part of their job, right? Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There's more nepo babies than you think.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Talk show appearances are mostly staged. Henry Winkler is exactly
who you think he is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That's the Fonz?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Says one of the nicest people ever. An absolute saint.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Spoilers are no accident. All those leaks or spoilers you
see from actors, they're fake and they're set up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what's not set up, though, Mike, is when
they put the full movie out.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, that's not planned.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Because nobody wants that. There's no benefit to that. When
they leak a full movie on Twitter, because that's happened
a couple times. It happened with Spider-Man. And then it
happened with the Odyssey.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They put the full movie out. And you think, well,
this has got to have only been up for five minutes.
Because they would have pulled it out immediately. But you
look and it's got 1.2 million views.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Everybody knows who the dirtbags are. Uh-huh. Meaning everybody knew
about Epstein and Diddy. I had heard Diddy stories, but
I didn't know Diddy. But I'd heard Diddy stories from
people that I know that were like, he's a sleazeball,
the worst.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Really?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And they would say specific things. What am I going
to do?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Say something and not prove it. And then they sue me.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Because it's all hearsay.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Jump in, try to find them in the act. Jump in.
Stop that. Everybody knew about R.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Everybody knew about Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The other one is, Steroids are very common with male actors.
This kind of goes back into the doing things to
look good because your job has you looking good, needs
you to look good.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Every male actor who gains 30 pounds of pure lean
muscle mass in four months isn't eating chicken, broccoli, and
rice just to do it as they say.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What are they doing? Steroids. Oh, they're not bulking got you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Because if you ask them, it's like, yeah, I'd hired
a trainer and then. Look at me. That's what you hear.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah. Like the Tom Holland.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's a similar one that I did, Nashville's Open Secrets.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They're not that dramatic.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sounds dramatic.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That Nashville is way smaller than it looks and seems.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Meaning everybody knows everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
There's a billion dollar music industry here, but everybody knows everybody.
who's hard to work with, who's got a moment right now,
who the climbers are, who the nice guys, the fake Christians,
you know who all of them are.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, that's a fair point.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And everybody knows everything.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It is a very small community, even though it's kind
of a big city.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Another one, being authentic is very much a marketing decision.
If you have to talk about how authentic you are
or how you try to be so authentic, it's mostly
your PR team. Yeah. creating that image. I mean, even
like photo shoots that put you in a place that
looks like real, like again, it's all marketing that your
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favorite artist sometimes doesn't even like the kind of music
they're making.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Ooh, that's a really good one. Dude, that's so true.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Especially, especially early and mid. And sometimes you'll have an
artist that does like this Odd kind of project. And
you go, that's kind of weird for them, but it's
actually the kind of music they wanted to make. Yeah,
you'll hear it later in their career where they're just like, yeah, really,
you know. I made my money.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That people that are overnight success, for the most part,
they've been at it for a decade.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Other than Stella Lefty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now we're mad at her again.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
By the time that most people discover an artist, especially here, Nashville...
Us as a community may have seen that person try
a couple different versions of what you're seeing now.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Great point.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That is cut through.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Great point. Even from like the clothes that they wear.
All kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. Because there are some artists that have really made it,
but we saw them try like a certain style, certain
kind of songs. And then they just, they shift and
pivot and try something else and try something else. And
then when they hit, it's like, wow, this person blew up.
They've been trying different things to make it work.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know, even like I think about like Jimmy Buffett
back in the day, he was a cowboy. Like Jimmy
Buffett was a cowboy, wore cowboy boots, wore cowboy hats
and stuff and lived in Nashville. But once that beach
theme hit, that's what he became.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Finally, it's, and I think if you listen to this
show or watch this show, you know this by now,
but the person singing the song, 50% chance they wrote
a word to it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
A single word. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Because growing up, you just thought the person that sang
the song wrote the song.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I thought George Strait wrote all his songs.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Probably very low percentage.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Turns out he didn't write very many of them.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So I think Nashville, the TV show, for me is
what really showed me how this system works here. Cause
I wasn't living here yet. And it's very much writers
to go to work. They have rights set up by
their publishing companies that pay them to write songs and
they go in, they get there at nine or 10
and they leave at three and they go back home.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They live a.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Seemingly non-creative life except for those six or seven hours.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That's right. It's like going to work like everyone else.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And then they have a different right the next day,
maybe in a different place, maybe the same office with
different people. just rotating in and out. It's very much
a factory.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Even the same with artists. It wasn't until we moved
here until I realized these artists also have a pretty
strict schedule when they tour. They tour on the weekends,
but then they have their Mondays and Tuesdays to have
at home with their families like everyone else. So they
have a weekend. It's just a different day than ours.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I also think that people think touring... is some, hey,
you just go out and go hard. I think that
happens at the very beginning for artists. But by the
time an artist has a massive show or even a
big show, they've been doing it long enough to where
the bloom is off the rose.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And you're just getting there. You're trying to eat right.
You're trying to get your sleep. Now, occasionally there are
those that still go pretty hard drinking-wise.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But I think a lot of these artists go much,
not harder, but softer than you think in that they're
actually homebodies.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. And then what I really like, too, is the
piece of the pie. Like you said, everyone in this
town gets a piece of the pie. It's almost like
it's designed to where everyone is going to work on
an artist, push a song, and then we're all going
to get paid for our families. And it's, yeah, to PR,
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to labels, to artwork, to distribution, tour bus drivers, all
that stuff. It's like that's the way this town is.
Where like everyone just gets a little bit, little piece
of the pie.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
The nicest public persona doesn't even tell you how nice
someone actually is in.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Real life either. Oh, that's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I put that on there. Because it's how they treat
their bus driver, their band, their venue staff.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
There can be an artist that comes in and they
sound so nice. If you hear them or watch a
video clip, you're like, that's cool. They're the coolest person ever.
And they're really a jerk.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Then you have some where you can, they're yelling at
their bus driver.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, ride me, ride me slow.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
What'd he say? Ride me smooth and ride me fast.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, Clay Walker, ride me slow. Ride me fast.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You're like, dang, dude.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
The Bobbycast.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
We'll be right back. And we're back on The Bobbycast.
They put out a list of the top 40 most
influential American radio personalities of all time. Ooh.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Dead and alive.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do you think I made the list?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes. You have to make the list. This is all time?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All time. Again, dead and alive.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
40? 40. 40. I feel like you're on the list.
I hope you're on the list.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
If you were to bet.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
That you're on the list? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What would you, if I say I bet you a dollar,
what would you bet?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I'll, like what number you're at?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, just I'm on the list.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh yeah. I would probably put like how much money
I'd probably put a hundred dollars on it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
That I'm on the list?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah. A hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
All time?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes. Because I feel like that'll pay me a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh, so you're saying the odds are bad for me then?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean, it's top 40 of all time. So I
just can't think of that many.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So I did make the list.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yes!
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Pay me.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So a fact check selection of the top 40 most
influential American radio personalities of all time, spanning entertainment, music, news, sports,
and talk radio.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Wow, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So I did make the list. I can give you
the top five.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Number one, Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Number two, keep your feet on the ground and keep
reaching for the stars.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Casey Kasem. Casey Kasem.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Number three is maybe not the original, but the biggest...
Conservative talk.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Rush?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Rush. He's dead, but Rush. Number four, and that's the
rest of the story. Paul Harvey? Paul Harvey. I think
that's what he said, right?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Number five, I don't know. I can't give you anything
because I think he was dead maybe before I was born,
but Jack Benny is at number five.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh, yeah. I mean, I know the name. Me too.
I saw a TikTok clip of him recently.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Number six. Now, I didn't know this guy did radio,
so it must have been Black and White Days or
It's Bob Hope.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oh, yeah, dude. All that stuff was on the radio.
All of those Christmas specials and everything, those were all
radio broadcasts.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Number seven is Don Imus.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, Don Imus. NBC, right?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No. That's pig vomit. Pig virus, actually, but pig vomit
in the movie. Telling Howard Stern to go WNBC.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Eight's Dick Clark. Nine's Larry King.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And then ten is Orson Welles. What do you know
Orson Welles from?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
War of the Worlds. And a bunch of other books.
That freaked everybody out. Yeah. Thinking the aliens were taking over.
So was he a radio broadcaster or like a radio?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
That was him doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Wow. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So we're at 10.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So we have 30 left.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Dude, hold on though. Look at all those names. Like
those are huge, huge, huge names.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I think only one is alive and that's Howard Stern.
Is Don Iman still alive?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, he's dead? Okay. Because Casey, Rush, Paul Harvey, Jack Benny,
Bob Hope, Don Imus, Dick Clark, Larry King, Orson Welles,
all dead.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All dead.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So one living.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I didn't know Larry King died.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh, maybe he didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Oh, he's dead. Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I mean, not good, he's dead. But good, I was right.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't know if we were right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, he died in 2021.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Okay, 2021. Where do you think I am on the list?
Just take a guess now. We did the top 10.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I'm going to go 32.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Number 11 is.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Don't know who he is. Walter Winchell. I don't mean
that as disrespect, but it says radio news and commentary.
It must have been forever ago.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Edward R.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Murrow at number 12.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, news. I mean, he was a big man.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
CBS radio news and television. Wolfman Jack at 13. I
just know the pictures and the AM station. Was he
from El Paso?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
He broadcasted out of Mexico. And so the signal was
so powerful that it would come into America. That's why
he was so big.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Why do I think El Paso then?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Because it was probably across the border from El Paso.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Was he Mexican?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I don't know if he was Mexican, but he would
go over there because it was cheaper and his signal
was so strong.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Now he's white.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh, I typed in as Wolfman Jack Mexican. Mike beat
me to it. No, Wolfman Jack was born in Brooklyn,
New York. The Mexican connection is that it became famous
broadcasting from XCRF, a powerful radio station across the border,
right across the border in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Acuna, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay. Okay. We got Wolfman Jack. Art Bell. Mm-mm. Steve
Harvey's at 15. We have another alive person here. There
we go. At 16, Ryan Seacrest. All right.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We're getting close to you.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
And Seacrest for the American Top 40 Countdown.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Delilah at 17. Dude, what a staple. I think Delilah's
been on SNL, like them parodying Delilah.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's how big she is.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Oh, yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Mm-hmm. Elvis Duran at 18. Okay. New York for 40 years.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Dude, I'm going to bump you up. I'm sorry. I
said 32.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Tom Joyner at 19.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know Tom Joyner?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Do I know of him?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Do I know him personally?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Donnie Simpson at 20. At 21, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Wow. 21, dude. That's amazing. That's really, really cool.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Maybe like the sixth alive person.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, because there really haven't been that many.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I was surprised. I was surprised I was even on
the list because mostly I get left out of stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Dude, that makes me emotional. Oh, don't cry on me, man. No, stop.
I'm being serious. Like, that's crazy to me. I put
you at 32 because there are so many, you know,
radio legends out there. And the fact that you are
number 21 out of everyone of all time, dude, that's
quite the accomplishment. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It's also just a random.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Doesn't matter. Okay. I mean, who's below you?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Dave Ramsey at 22.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Oh, that's stupid. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He should be
above you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Rick Dees at 23.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Wow, Rick Dees.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Dr. Demento at 24. Okay, I remember the name.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The 80s?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, probably 90s. I remember Dr. Demento. He would finish
the show with like, I'll storm in the castle. And
he'd do funny songs. I think he broke Weird Al.
That's possibly Dr. Demento's story. I can just roll through
some of these. 25, Garrison Keller. which is the Prairie
Home Companion on NPR. I think you would know his picture.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, probably.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
John Tesh, Jim Rome, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura,
Don McNeil, Fred Allen, Arthur Godfrey, Edgar Bergen, Bing Crosby,
Gene Autry, Charles Osgood, Lowell Thomas, and Red Barber.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Dude, listen to that. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It's a pretty good list.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It's a really good list.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I was excited to see me on the list. I
think they left off Charlemagne.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yes. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I think he easily could have been where I am
in that space right there, Charlemagne the God of New York.
But yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's really cool. Anyone else you think they left off?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's kind of putting screws to me now. Let me think.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Just anyone that comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I would have said Steve Harvey. I would have said Elvis.
If you would have asked me before, I would have
said Seacrest. I would have said Charlemagne. I would have
covered my bases with our company's big guys.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So smart.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Once I cover that.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You could do people, and this could be my reading
of all the Howard Stern books, but like Mancow. I
never listened to Mancow in Chicago, but he was.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
A Chicago show. This is around the same time as
Howard Stern?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Never listened to, but I know they got in trouble
for the sex in the church and they were kind
of stern enemies. Mark and Brian's a show in LA,
but I'm thinking of these local-ish big shows. I only
know them because Howard Stern fought with them.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
What about Big Boy?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Big Boy's a good one.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah. Surprised he wasn't on that list. Me too.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Big Boy's a great one. I'm glad you said that.
Big Boy's a great one.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Gotta get covered.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
It's amazing, man. That's really, really cool.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Did you ever listen to Dr. Laura?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
My mom listened to Dr. Laura every single day.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, it would be on, at times, on the same
channel that Delilah was on.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah. Was that afternoons?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Because I remember my mom picking me up. It was
in the daytime and she gave out advice.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yes. And she had red glasses.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Oh, you remember her visually?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well, because I think she had a show. I knew it.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Oh, you're thinking of Sally Jesse?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Dude, as soon as I said it, I'm like, I
am mixing two women.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But Dr.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Laura, let me see what she looks like. She might
have had glasses too.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Tell me she had glasses. Tell me they were red.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
No, you're thinking of Sally Jesse for sure. She had
no glasses.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Dr. Laura didn't have glasses?
Speaker 4 (40:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Dr. Laura Schlesinger. No, no glasses.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
No glasses.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I can show you a picture over here.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Wow, I've never seen her before in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Now, if I show you a picture of Sally Jesse.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I know exactly what she looks like, because that's who
I thought Dr. Laura was.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Dr.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Laura, Sally Jesse.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
But you know, these days, people can look up social
media about what do they look like. A lot of
these guys are on TV, Steve Hart, whatever, you're on TV.
But back then, you really had to imagine what they
look like. You really, really did.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, even in my early radio days... Unless you went to.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
A website, which I'm talking about before then.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
No, but even me, I experienced where people didn't know
what I look like.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So it wasn't that long ago that people had to
go and pursue, go to a website, click on a
profile of one of the people on the air, look
at their page and go, oh, that's what they look like.
I remember going to my first radio station ever and
being so shocked at what the DJs actually look like
because their voices sounded really cool.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
And then you would see them and they wouldn't look
as cool as their voices sounded. And I would be
shocked by that. I just never wanted that to be
what happened with me. So I would always talk about
how dorky I looked. Oh, good. So it would be
the opposite.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
So when people met me, they would go.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
He's not that dorky.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Oh, yeah. You're not that weird.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That was your strategy?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
That's smart. I remember the Mad Mexican came to our school.
He was like the local. That's a thing. The Mad Mexican. Okay.
And yeah, same, dude. I picture him, you know, with
a sombrero and like all that. And he was just this,
I think he was white actually. No way. Stop it.
He was white. Scruffy beard.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
The ultimate cultural appropriation.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
So did you have a favorite show that you listened
to growing up that was like your show?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Man, the Mad Mexican was definitely a big part of
my elementary years. of just hearing, I think it was B-104,
I think was the station, and that was their morning show.
That's kind of all I remember. Later in life, I
remember listening to Loveline, loved Loveline.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
At night? Yes. Adam Carolla, Dr.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Drew? Because I worked news, and so I was the cameraman,
and I was just roaming the streets, you know, in
my news truck at night. And what else do I do?
Listen to that. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I had two people that I listened to. One, Bob
Robbins was on Kissin' 96, which was a country station. Now,
he was just on, but he was a DJ.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
He would talk a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Not a show show. Right.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So I listened to him a lot growing up, but
he wasn't someone that I knew his opinions on things
because he just accompanied the music, wore a cowboy hat.
Later before Bob Robbins died, Arkansas Keith would go on
his fishing show with him because Bob Robbins was like
an Arkansas staple and had a fishing show that ran locally.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
So I listened to him, but the show that I
really listened to and thought was crazy was this show
on Magic 105, which was a rock station, a classic
rock station. And it was The Outlaw, Tommy Smith, and
Big Dave. And they would... At the time, I thought
it was the craziest radio ever.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I bet.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
And they'd just be like talking about boobs. And it
was very much a Southern Howard Stern ripoff. But I
didn't know Howard Stern. So I didn't know that. I
just thought, these guys are crazy. People would call in,
saying if they saw like a nice butt yesterday and where.
It was just... I thought it was insane. I was
12 and I would listen to this and go, oh,
this is crazy. So I would listen to that show.
(44:05):
I'd make a point to listen to that show every morning.
I'd put it on to hear what crazy thing they
were talking about. Later on, I went to work. It
was my second station ever. My first time working at
the time, Clear Channel. But I'd worked in Hot Springs
at KLAZ, which was its own private company. I'd moved
to Little Rock and started working for Clear Channel, which
turned into iHeartRadio. And I was working at a station
(44:27):
called Q100. And it was the same company that had
the outlaw Tommy Smith and big Dave, and they were
still on at the time.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No way.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
And I'm probably 21 or 22. It was right before
I moved to Austin and I never got to know them,
but I saw Tommy Smith walk in the halls and
I thought, I'm going to go tell him that I'm
a fan. And he thought I was an intern and
asked me to get him coffee.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
No, that was your introduction to Tommy. Wow. Did that
make you mad or were you just kind of like, whatever?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I don't know that it made me mad. I was
a kid.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
And I don't think I was whatever. I think I
was rooting for a better interaction.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Sure. Of course.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Because I had listened to him forever, but also I
got him coffee.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
He asked for coffee.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
What are you going to do? And I don't, I
never talked to him again. I never had the chance
to talk to him again. I don't know if he's
alive right now. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
But.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Because if he's alive, that'd be cool to hear his,
you know, like, Hey man.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Oh, there's no, he doesn't remember that. I was just like,
I never told him.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
You never got to that point, which is telling that
you were a big fan.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
No, I never went back and tapped him on the
shoulder to say, hey, I also work here.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I'm on the air.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I'm number 21 on the list of all-time radio personalities.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Is Tommy the Outlaw Smith?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
He retired in 2021.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Okay. Okay. Maybe he's hanging around. Let me ask.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Do you see if he's alive?
Speaker 5 (45:52):
He came back to radio in 2024.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh. Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
So probably he's alive. He just isn't on... Anywhere. But yeah,
that's my experience. I had a similar one with Bob
Cole when I moved to Austin.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
Right after Bob Cole was at KVAC, the big country station,
and he was the big country guy. And he also
thought I was an intern. Walk in the hallways.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And Bob Cole was Mr.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Austin. Yeah, very much so. Tommy, the outlaw, Smith, longtime
Little Rock radio host, appears to be alive.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Oh, wow. Man, you should get a hold of him.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And tell them, just, you know what? I never got
to tell you, man. I was a big fan of yours.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
I just sent him a letter of my sheet of
paper here where I'm number 21. Yeah, so that was
the crazy morning show that we would listen to.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Mike, do you have a show?
Speaker 5 (46:39):
Yeah, Kid Craddock in the Morning. Growing up in Dallas,
that's all we listened to. If I didn't listen to
that show, I wouldn't be here now. That's what got
me into listening to morning radio.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Did you ever meet Kid Craddock?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
A couple times.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
He died.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
He died of like a brain aneurysm. He was on
a golf course.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
I remember that. I remember we had just moved to
Nashville when that happened.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
I think too that the show is still called The
Kid Karatek in the Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah, still doing it.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
No, it's still called that.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, now I know. Even though he's not there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Which is what we're going to do when you die.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No. I'll have Caitlin Sue get my name off of that.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
The Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Get my name off of that. One final thing.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Bands.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
That you'd like to see get back together.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
So I've got a list. The reason I bring it
up is because I've really been rooting for Barenaked Ladies
to get Steven, their old lead singer, back in.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Are they broken up?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Oh, they have been forever.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
And so he was the vocalist, and Ed is the
guy that would kind of do the raps and be funny.
Ed does all the vocals now and has for a
long time. But I watch Steven's Instagram Live sometime, and
he'll perform. great singer, but he was, uh, you know,
broken to the old apartment.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
This is where we.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Used to live.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
So because I watch both of them, I'd love for
them to get back together. I think he got into
some trouble. They kicked him out of the band. Seems
like it's not good. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
For me as a bare naked ladies fan, who comes
to mind for you now? Is this, is this cause they're,
they just broke up or they gotta be alive.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Okay. We're not bringing anyone out of the dead. Um,
I guess the first thing that comes to my mind
would probably be Journey. I would like to see Journey
get back together with.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Did they for a minute? With Steve Perry?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
I don't think so. I think the new singer is kind.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Of– Maybe they almost kicked out the new singer as well.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
They hired another one.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (48:37):
I think they did almost kick him out, yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
Oh, no.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Uh-oh. Common denominator. The band. The band.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
I think he wanted to stop touring and they're like,
we got to keep touring.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I've seen some stories about bands that have none of
the original members that are still touring.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Oh, Beach Boys?
Speaker 1 (48:53):
No, they have some. Oh, I think there's... Like Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Just think it's Mike Love.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
That's fine. But this story is none of the original members.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Wait, so who's the band?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
For example... Oh, okay. I wanna know what love is. Foreigner? Foreigner.
I don't think Foreigner has any original members in it.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
No way. Their wives should sue. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Let me ask. How many bands are touring with no...
original now another one was Leonard Skinner.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Okay I thought about that because they're all cousins right.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
And to be fair the lead singer I think his
brother is now the lead singer yeah something like that
but he wasn't originally in the band and there are
no surviving members of Leonard Skinner they're also in the
band yeah that one I don't mind as much because
tragedy was the reason that the band went down sure Um,
so Leonard Skinner, I think foreigners one, I saw a
(49:46):
whole list of it, but that's interesting. Do you see
any other ones?
Speaker 2 (49:49):
I see.
Speaker 5 (49:50):
That's a bunch of old bands, the platters, the drifters, coasters,
four tops.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
So all those old doo-wop bands, but, but so, so
none of them are original members and they just go
tour and sing those songs. Yeah. That seems like just
a legal nightmare.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
There's also, and I forget who, but he's, He lists
himself as still in the band, but the whole band
tours without him, and he never goes on the road
with them. I find out who that is, but to him,
it's just the band goes out and makes money, and
he takes a piece of it.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
No way.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, and he doesn't act.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
That's kind of like how Brian Wilson did it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well, Brian Wilson did Stay Back, but he was in
the studio while the rest of the guys went out.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Making the records.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Let me see, because I'm pretty sure Foreigner is one
of those as well. Foreigner is definitely one. Oh, Kansas
was one. Kansas was one of them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
So when we did our Million Dollar Show and Foreigner
came and played, who was that dude?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I don't know, but he sounded just like him.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Just a rando?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
So, this is who I'm talking about. So, it says,
founding guitarist Mick Jones is still involved with the band,
but he doesn't tour.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
That's Kansas?
Speaker 1 (50:49):
No, Foreigner.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Oh, Foreigner.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Original singer Lou Graham makes occasional guest appearances, but Generally,
when Foreigner's out playing concerts, there's no original members.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
No way.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
In Kansas, no original members, supposedly, allegedly.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I wonder if the people buying tickets and going to
that know that.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
No, because I wouldn't have unless I saw a story
about it.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
Right, right, right. So you go thinking like, ah, wow,
I'm watching Kansas. No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
The other ones I'd put together are, and Hootie has.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
That would have been one. And Oasis has.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Oh, Oasis. But I guess I forgot about them because, yeah,
they're back together.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
But they're only kind of back together because it's just
the two brothers. I don't think they brought back the
other guys in the band.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Who were the other guys in the band?
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I don't know, but they were always as a band.
They just had two brothers plus two other dudes, right? Yeah.
And those guys, I don't know that they're back.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
And then even when they started, the brothers weren't even
together that long, right? They broke up pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
The Black Crows. That's not the whole band.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's the two brothers.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
It's the two brothers.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
But they're back.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
And to be fair, that was only one member.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
I saw a picture of an album cover from them,
and there were like five guys in the Black Crows. Oh, really?
Speaker 2 (51:52):
At the very beginning?
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Well, Counting Crows. Let's go Counting Crows.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yeah, but most of those guys are still there. More
than one or two.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Just a couple.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Rage Against the Machine would be a good one.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Oh, that's really... I'd love to see them get back together.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
Dwight Strives would be fun.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
That'd be cool, too. R.E.M. Oh, I didn't know they
were broken up.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
They're not playing shows that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So if they just go on a break, they're kind
of getting them back together? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
But play the hits. I saw an R.E.M. show once
and there were no hits.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
What did they play? An album?
Speaker 1 (52:21):
The whole new album front to back. Outkast oh yeah
that'd be awesome although even when Speakerboxd Love Below came
out that was like two separate albums and they were
just together but they did two separate records so I
don't even think they were together when they were together
yeah I think they were just creating music under the
Outkast label because it was a double album because I
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like the way you move was Big Boy and then
that's right.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Shake It Shake It that's Andre.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
And they weren't on each other's songs for the most
part I also have NSYNC.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
They'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
They would.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
If the Backstreet Boys are doing Vegas and the Sphere
and making all that money, NSYNC would do 1.7 times that.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
I just feel bad for them because they're older dudes
trying to do those moves and everything.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
So are Backstreet Boys, and that's fun and cool.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
They're the same age. I know. I know.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Do you feel bad for Backstreet Boys on making all
that money and everybody's dressed all in white?
Speaker 2 (53:20):
No, I feel I'm happy for them that they make
a lot of money. I feel bad that they have
to make do the dances still. I bet they would
love to just stand there and sing and not dance.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Yeah, but you have to dance.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
You have to. All right.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
That's it. Thank you, everybody. And we did a science experiment.
We reunited bands. We talked about controversies in country music
or a kind of the lack thereof this year.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
There weren't any real big ones. We talked about that
everybody in Hollywood has genital herpes, apparently.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
That's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
And then even things in Nashville that you may not
know that kind of everybody here also knows and understands. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
And you being part of that list?
Speaker 1 (53:57):
That's right. And me being part of that list. I
only found that this morning. It popped up in my algorithm.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
And it wasn't sent to me. I didn't know about it.
It just popped up. And I thought, oh, here's a
list I've surely been left off of.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Hey, Muse, can you make me a big poster of
this list? Have it to me by Tuesday. See, I'm
going to get amused. Good one.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
All right, that's it. Thank you guys for watching and listening.
If you're listening on podcast, if you're watching on Netflix,
thank you so much for watching. We will see you
guys next time.
Speaker 4 (54:25):
Love this episode of The Bobbycast? Subscribe on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Okay, on this episode, I am going to conclude a
science experiment that I have done myself, but we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Do it live here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome, Eddie Beck.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, what's up, man?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So this is what happened in the last week. Are
you familiar with Muse?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The band?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No, the app. So it's Zuckerberg. It's Facebook meta and
they launched what's basically an AI digital assistant.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I love to try everything out. So I saw Muse.
I saw the talk about it. I downloaded it immediately.
I put my credit card in it. And basically you
just tell it what to do and it does it.
That's kind of the dream of it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it's the gap between you and AI.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's the gap between me and getting something done.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But AI is not just doing work and feeding it
back to me. It's actually doing the job physically.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So this is what I did in Muse. By the way,
not a commercial in any way, because this could end
terribly because I've not seen the final product that we're.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
About to reveal. Oh no, you're the one that ends
the world? Oh no.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Missiles start going off randomly.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Just because you got Muse.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So I got on and I had a picture of
me playing at our show with Brooks and Dunn. And
I want to put some cool pictures up in our studio.
of me on stage or really cool moments from my
career with these artists. And so all I did was
find a high res picture. I thought it was high
res and I uploaded it to Muse and I said, Hey,
would you please frame this and send it back to
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my house?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Just that simple. That's it. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So it hits me back and goes, the picture you
have uploaded is not high res. I can use AI
to fix the resolution if you'd like, and then I'll
take care of it. That's basically the message. So I say, sure.
And I understand that it has my credit card and
it's going to do what it does. So I didn't
tell him what store to go to. I just said,
make it big.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So what I'm about to reveal here, because we haven't
opened the box yet, is everything that it did when
I said, please make it big, frame it and send
it back to my house. And you have permission to
do next day or three day air.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can I ask you, what was the source of the picture?
Like Instagram? What was the source?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I think Reed had taken some pictures. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So it was already kind of, Better quality than most.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was a good picture, but it wasn't high res
enough to blow up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That's when it said, hey, I'm going to up this
up and then I'm going to down this down and
I'm just going to send it to your house.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So you can slide that in here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And this is it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All I did was say, make this picture. And it said, okay.
It messaged me and said, hey, are you okay with
this price? Was the only thing it messaged me. And
I said, yeah. And so that was it. I don't
know what's in here.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You told it the size and everything?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, I just didn't make it big.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, so you didn't tell it like three foot by seven.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Because I don't know those dimensions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, right, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's like if I had an assistant, I would just say, hey,
you might make it this big. Okay. And frame it.
So this should be a picture of good quality.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Come on, AI, don't let us down.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I have not opened this. This is not a trick.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Can you pull that open?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, I see it. So it's in there. Step one
is good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Let me grab that picture. Oh, now it's like... This
is how you know this wasn't fixed. It has that
cable on it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The band.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We need scissors.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
A scissor? Or scissors would be nice.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah. More scissors.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, because it has that.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I normally have a knife on me, just not today.
Just kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What if you were a pocket knife guy?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I always carry a knife.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
In school, we had knives in our pockets and guns
in our trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Dude, my dad was a pocket knife guy and... He
would open doors with it. I mean, anything you needed.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Arkansas Keith was a pocket knife guy. Arkansas Keith then
graduated to a full-on Swiss Army knife.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Of course, that's what my dad did, too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where it was like, we need a corkscrew.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You need a toothpick.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now, if we were hunting, it was different. It was
a much bigger knife.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Are we so ill-prepared, purposefully, that we don't have scissors
in the whole building?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
We have them in the front.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I just got.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
To get my keys. Oh, you got to go to
a different building to get the scissors?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We have to go unlock a door.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Let me take a little trip. Do you want me
to try to pull it?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, we'll let them come back because this proves to people-
That we weren't ready. That we weren't ready at all.
The box just came in this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What do you expect it to be? You expect it
to be perfect? Great. Like if you ask an assistant,
I want this big, you expect it to be what
you asked for.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I think it's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then do you even know about Muse?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I've heard of it. I've heard people talk about it, but- Man,
I'm not like you. I don't jump on these things
like you do. I see people talk about it. I
see things being done with it. Like right now, you
did something with it. And then I will take that
information and process it six months later. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Will you help me? Will you cut this for me?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's pretty amazing, though, that they found the company and
they found they did everything, everything.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now, in the future, if not already, I'm sure these
AI apps will have deals with certain companies to go
there first.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
If you'll pull that box back.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is that big enough for you, first off? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is about the size I imagined.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When you said big.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know what size this is. Would you hand
me those scissors?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That looks like the back. So the front is facing you.
I'm familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can see the picture.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh, I thought that's what you were asking.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I can see the picture.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What were you asking? What? You said, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't know what size it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh, what size it is.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah. What I'm curious about is if it's high res
enough or if it's like upside down. So now for
those that are just listening and not watching, you're cutting
the bubbles off of it. Here, why don't you take
this and just. I should have a real assistant.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Here, take this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Just take it and cut it all off and just
hand it back to me.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That'll be good.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So what do you use AI-wise? Nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Google. When I Google something, it gives you the AI overview.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So that didn't even, I mean, you didn't download anything.
You're still using Google. It just changed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Correct. And it's great. The outline that it gives me
for something, it even does a little bubble. It's like thinking.
Then it gives me the outline. But that's it. I
don't do chat GPT. I don't have it write things
for me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And not that I'm against it. I just don't. It's like,
I'm just not there yet. I don't really need it yet.
If I want a picture done, I.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Actually go to the place. I think you just don't
know how to use it yet.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Dude, the way you're making it sound, like, I'm loving it.
You're making it sound like it can just do anything
you want. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, it's going to need your credit card. Would you
give an app your credit card that quickly?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And then we're also going to get into the money
that Ella Langley's made from Choose in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Gosh, I bet that's so much money.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The song's done pretty well.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
How many weeks at number one?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean... 23... As of right now.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And I know, like, you say that, and I don't
really know exactly what that means because I have nothing
to compare it to. Do you have a song?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Mariah Carey was the winner with All I Want for
Christmas is You. So that would be non-consecutives. So that
would be every year that ends up being a number
one for two.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Or three weeks. Oh, got it, because of Christmas time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, the picture's ready to go. Slide it on over here.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And the big reveal.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Can you see that?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It did it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Does it look grainy or anything?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
My vision's bad.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, man.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That looks like a very clear, high-res picture.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So all I did was get into the app and
upload a picture and say, handle this.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dude, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And it handled it and then sent it to my house.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's amazing. Wow. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I'll hang that. I guess I'll upload more pictures.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Overall, the whole process of asking it, it come into
your door. How long did that take? Four minutes. Four minutes. No, no, no. No,
it didn't come in four minutes. You asked it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You asked for it in four minutes. Well, it took
like the two-night shipping.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Okay, so like just.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think I did this two nights ago.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Dude, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So imagine what they're doing with weapons.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's so scary.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So that's how we want to leave. That's our science experiment.
It works. That's a great picture. This is not an
advertisement for Meta or Muse.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How many more pictures are you going to get made?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Probably three or four.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I may just upload 10 or so and be like,
which ones do you like? Do them the best and
send them back to my house.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You guys think that's cool that all that happened?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Did you tell it how much it could spend?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It ran a number by me. Because I told it
the size, so it ran a number by me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What was the number?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Like $ 220 or something. That's not bad. To have it
blown up, framed, mailed, everything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're supposed to have six fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, dang. So when they come in, eventually, as they will,
I'll just have them sign it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Very cool. And put it up. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You can prop that up against the door.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's number one.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I do want to talk about Ella Langley and how
much money she has made from choosing Texas. So overall
that song has generated about $ 14 million. So that's total
that's brought in by the track for everybody for the
full pie. So the exact portion that goes into Ella
Langley's pocket is different, but I, and I'm going to
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do some estimating myself.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So gross revenue breakdown at a $ 13. 9 million. I would
say publishing is going to get about six of that.
Six million? Label is going to get about eight.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh, dang. So that's the whole pie, right?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So far. So far.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The songwriter split. Because Langley co-wrote the song with Miranda Lambert,
Luke Dick, Joy Beth Taylor, that $ 6 million in publishing
royalties is divided among four writers and their publishers. Okay.
So that $ 6 million is going to be split up
in all the ways.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the publishers, is that the company? Like the publishing
company that took that to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, that pays her.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So... The record label split is $ 8 million. So that's
the two here. 23 weeks at number one. I think
once everything is split up, she made around $ 4 million.
That's amazing. Because she's taking money on both sides.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, because she's a writer. And so Miranda, as a writer.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She's just going to get the publishing.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
How much do you think she makes off of it?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Probably the same split on the publishing side. So probably
a million and a half, two million bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's not a bad day.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And that's just as of today. So yeah, that's the
biggest song ever in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And you know, what's funny is I feel like that's
just the lottery, right? Like winning the lottery. You write,
these people write so many songs. They think some songs
are really good. They think some songs are going to
make them a lot of money. Then you have one
like this where you're like, well, I didn't think it'd
be making me that much money, but it does.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I would bet you they finished the song that day
and thought that's just another song. I bet it's pretty good.
That's just a song.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's a pretty good song.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But that's so rare. That's rare that song is in.
No song has ever been number one that long across
the multi-format chart, the all genre.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Ever?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's the biggest song ever on the Billboard Hot 100
since they've started.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Even like Elvis days.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah. Well, it's kind of like football records. You know,
they have the old leather helmet days. That doesn't count
with the records as of today.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Got it. Got it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So modern. It's the biggest song ever. But it beat
out things like Old Town Road, which is there for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Mariah Carey, which she could end up taking the record back.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Because we're still going to have Christmases.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Unless AI ends up shooting missiles and we go into
like a global catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And there are no more Christmases.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I do have the top five country music controversies so
far this year. Us Weekly wrote an article on this.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now we're January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September.
Nine months into this thing? Ten months right at it?
What do you think has been a controversy this year?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Overall or you say just overall?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Country.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Dolly?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Can you think of any? She died. That's not a controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Some people may not believe that she's dead. No, I'm
just kidding. Everyone believes that. Controversy?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Does anything come to mind?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Did anyone fight? Like, I'm sure. Oh, I mean, I
feel like Morgan Wallen's always part of some kind of controversy.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Number one. You just picked Morgan Wallen across the board?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Number one. The piano flip on stage.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh, yes. And then he threw something.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And then he threw the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But you know it's a pretty tame year if that's
the biggest controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Agreed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So he was playing a live show for one of
them and he, I guess the piano wasn't sounding right
or he couldn't hear it in his ears and he
flipped the piano. The other was the security person had
the phone and they were holding it up and he
goes and grabs the phone and chunks it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I feel like that's theatrics. You know, like.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I felt like it was the piano whenever I saw
it the first time. I didn't realize he was actually upset.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hmm. No, I get being upset, but I mean, you're
not that big of a baby to just throw something over.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But he threw two things.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Was that the same night?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, but if you're just throwing things, I think if
you do two, you're a thrower.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think you're just reacting. It's a bit petulant. You're
just throwing stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Have you ever done that? Gotten so mad that you
threw something?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No, I don't throw or kick or break because I
understand that I have to pay for it later.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's good awareness.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I would like to, but I don't have that rage part.
The only time I punch stuff is when Arkansas loses
a close game And I'd like punch the couch. But
we don't play close games anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So no punching.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah. So number one is Morgan Wallen. Number two is
the Bailey Zimmerman incident. Oh, the hotel room. So he
canceled a concert in May. And that involved him stumbling
onto a stage, damaging a guitar, throwing a microphone, causing
$ 16, 000 in hotel room damage. He apologized, took responsibility. The
criminal charges were dismissed. Apparently he paid it off.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
He apologized. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
The concert itself became secondary to all the events afterward.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I don't remember the concert.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Also, this really didn't hurt him in any way.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
They put him in the news.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The only people that it hurt was the hotel people.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But even then, it paid for.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can you imagine being a housekeeper and going to that
room and being like, great, this is my day? I
have to clean all this up.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Number three is the band Perry's Family Feud.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh, that was a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I'm starting to think this might be set up, though. Really?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
To promote the Brothers song?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Just a little bit. If you were to percentage me
on this, I still think it's 70% real, 30% it
could possibly be a work, like a wrestling work.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That they're both in on it?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. I mean, that would make a lot of sense,
and I would sign off on that.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
He's still posting things about how he was kicked out
of the band. It's kind of the reason that he's
using to promote himself. It doesn't put her in the
greatest light. But I don't think she cares.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It doesn't put her in the greatest light for just
the way it is now?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No, because she forced him out of the band, according
to the story.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, if she's a part
of it, though, like say this is planned, would she
care that it doesn't put her in the greatest light?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Not if she owns part of the entity.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's so true. And again, it's not as if they
committed a crime and they did get a lot of
press from it. I still think it's real, but more
of me thinks this could be a work. Brandon, why
do you think it could be a work? Just because
it's still going? Like he's still trying to milk it?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah. There's just too much theatrics going on. Like it
all seems planned. Like the posts seem planned. Even their
response that they posted a response and then they took
it down. And then he immediately was like, oh, they
took it down. Like it was all– it was just
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too staged.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
If she would have addressed it and then never talked
about it again, I think I would have believed it.
But the fact that there's any sort of conversation about
it still feels a bit planned. And I can appreciate that.
I love wrestling.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't mind storylines. But yeah, number three, Neil Perry
has publicly accused his sister, Kimberly, of forcing him out
of the band after nearly three decades. So her husband, Johnny,
could take a place. And so he has got a
band and I see him pop up in my algorithm.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I like the songs. We like the songs.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I heard one song.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Or the song that we heard.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Number four, and I've had a real issue with this one,
the Stella Lefty and the Nepo baby debate.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah. Because there's a difference in having a wealthy family
and being a Nepo baby. And I think those semantics
are what irritates me the most because people like she's
a Nepo baby. Her dad is not in the industry.
A Nepo would be if I hire my daughter to
work in podcasting or media and get her a job
in my company or a friend's company.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Did he have a Groupon for a Being in the
record business?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I don't think so, no.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Because if that was the case, that'd be Nepo.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't think there's a group on to that. If so,
I'd have bought that. So she is the daughter of
a billionaire. Nobody's debating that. And a lot of people
are just going Nepo baby. It's also like Nepo baby
season in America where everybody that has success that has
anybody connected to them in any way. Is a nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Now, I did think that if you have a lot
of money, that does give you an advantage.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It does give you an advantage.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But that is not the definition of nepotism.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Not at all. And there's a lot of artists that
have money. I mean, you could look at Thomas Rhett
and say he's a nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Money. His dad's in the industry. Allowed him to meet songwriters.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That is a nepo baby.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Thomas Rhett is a nepo baby.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We love you, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Who else? Lucas Nelson is a nepo baby.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
She is not.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She's not. Her dad's just rich. Yes. And what I
saw her in an interview say that her dad's not
even part of Groupon anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Is Groupon still a thing?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Who's a part of Groupon anymore?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Not even him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So she's not a nepo baby. And then the other
thing that's irritating to me with her is about her
is that she's become really a punching bag for even
other artists that haven't made it. It's such a bad
look if you're an artist and you're bashing another artist anyway. Oh, yeah.
Like I've seen country artists on TikTok, and their content
that works is them bashing Stella Lefty. Not their music,
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because their music's meant to suck, but their content that's
getting streams is them talking about Stella Lefty, so they
keep doing it. That's a bad look. I'm remembering who.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They are, too.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Like, I got two in my head right now. It's like,
it's their thing now.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Are they artists that we know of?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're just jealous. No, of course not. We don't know them.
That's why they're making Stella Lefty content. Yeah, but there's
so many artists in town whose families are rich as well.
But she's not an industry plant. It's almost impossible to
be an industry plant in music because you can't make
your music connect. You can get an advantage and they
can juice up streams on the digital service providers. You
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can do all of that but you can't make your
music actually connect with people. And I see videos of
elementary kids 120 at a time singing that song.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's a really good song and she can actually sing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So I hate that for her because I think it
was just creating a little momentum and then people saw
that And just wrote it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
You're right. And the more I think about it, there
are a lot of Nepo babies in country music.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
There's a lot of Nepo babies in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
In the world, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Because if your parents are successful, they want to help you.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Sure. Anyone would do that.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Your actress hero is a Nepo baby.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah. She is a Nepo baby. I mean,
her mom, her grandfather, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It doesn't mean you're not talented.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Hillary from Lady A. Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Mean you're not talented.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
No, not at all. And what I'm saying is, is
that nobody attacks them because you're right. Anyone would do
that for their kid. So why are we attacking Stella?
Because her daughter, her dad's a billionaire. Okay. That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And because she added Noah Kahn as a writer, because
that song sounded so much like stick season. So, and
it does. And I think that was a smart thing
to do, but that happens in country music all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Where, Artists have to add another writer because another song
sounded very similar.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So you just add that writer.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Add them in. The thing, though, that I don't feel
is fair, there are a lot of people that will
take clips of her songs and they go, oh, she
stole this one from this person, this one from this person.
But they're taking like a four-second clip and then identifying
a four-second clip in her song that's not even the
main part of the song and going, and they do
sound similar, but find me songs where you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
No, no, no, you can't. There's so much music in
the world.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, and there's so few chords.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yes, there are only a handful of chords.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So that's number four on their list, Estella Lefty and
Nepo Baby. Jelly Roll gets political at number five. He
spent a lot of his career saying he didn't want
to get political. And then he spent a lot of
time with Trump. And then he went on Jimmy Kimmel
and made jokes about Trump.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so he made a lot of not real enemies
because the internet's not real.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The internet's not real. And it's not people who actually
care about what they're, even with Stella Lefty. I had
a conversation with her and I'm like, that's not real.
Any of these people saying this to you, if you
went up and met them in real life, they'd be like, oh,
your songs are awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They would never say that to your face.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So they have Jelly Roll going on Kimmel. After being
with Trump, then making fun of Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I guess the weird thing about that, too, was
that we hadn't heard from Jelly Roll in a while.
And then he came out.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He hadn't heard from Jelly Roll in a while?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
No, because, you know, he went to the divorce.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It stayed in my feed.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh, no, no, the divorce. But he hadn't done anything.
He hadn't done anything publicly really since then. And then
the first thing he does is that.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
There are a lot of videos of him performing his concerts,
doing covers. You ever see those videos?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I see them a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Where people are like. Jelly Roll's only doing covers at
his show. It's like him doing Smash Mouth and Marcy Playground.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Like Green Day.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, Green Day. The honorable mention is Zach Bryan versus
Brantley Gilbert. Now, do you remember when... Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I missed that one.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We talked about it on our show a little bit.
But February 2026, this is when they had that alternative
halftime show, the Turning Point USA, that Brantley Gilbert played.
Brantley and Kid Rock. And Zach Bryan called it the
most cringe blank on the planet. And then Zach Bryan
and one of his buddies did Dirt Road Anthem and
then changed it to Chili on a Hot Dog. Do
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you remember us playing that? Chili on a hot dog.
And they're like standing at the bar. And the reason
they did that, Brantley originally cut the song, had written
the song. And so he responded publicly as well. So
they have that on there.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh my gosh. I feel like Zach Bryan too, just
kind of a lot of controversy around that guy.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You remember Chili on a Hot Dog?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Chili on a hot dog. Now I do.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor.
This is the Bobbycast.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
There's a list here of Hollywood's open secrets. And I
thought this was pretty funny. And I'm going to read
you some of these. I don't stand by all of them.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
But this is apparently the things that everybody in Hollywood knows.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Okay, so like, just Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number 10, your favorite celebrity definitely has genital herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's number 10 on the list of Hollywood's open secrets.
Everyone has herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Everyone in Hollywood has herpes?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Celebrities, waiters, everybody has herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Is this a deal where we all have that mouth herpes?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I don't think so. Genital herpes is not mouth herpes.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
This is a terrible secret.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Number nine, a lot of celebrities smell awful.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And I think because the emperor has no clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Explain that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Do you know the story of the emperor has no clothes?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Is that a cartoon, like a Disney movie?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Nobody would tell the emperor that his clothes were bad
or that he had no clothes because the emperor had
yes men everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh, so no one tells them that they smell?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But don't you know? Like, I don't need anyone to
tell me who I smell. Sometimes I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sometimes my wife's like, you smell bad.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And I'm like, I do?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, because you're just used to the smell? I don't
know if I'm used to it. I don't stink all
the time, but sometimes she has to tell me I
smell bad.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
What I'm saying is, it's like when your house, like,
you know, like your house, you think your house smells great,
but when someone comes over, they're like... What's that smell?
Because you're living in it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like someone that has cats or something?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Matthew McConaughey smelled bad.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We've met him a few times. But I feel like
that was purposeful where he was just like, I'm going
to wear my body the way it's supposed to be.
I'm not going to shower.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe that's because he never showers. He just had to
start saying that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Men are concealing their sexuality.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That in Hollywood, guys don't want to say they're gay
because it would hurt their image.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They wouldn't be able to work.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
All men dye their hair. I think there's going to
be a lot of aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The parts of this where guys have breast implants, like
pec implants or calf implants.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That's part of their job, right? Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There's more nepo babies than you think.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Talk show appearances are mostly staged. Henry Winkler is exactly
who you think he is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That's the Fonz?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Says one of the nicest people ever. An absolute saint.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Spoilers are no accident. All those leaks or spoilers you
see from actors, they're fake and they're set up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what's not set up, though, Mike, is when
they put the full movie out.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, that's not planned.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Because nobody wants that. There's no benefit to that. When
they leak a full movie on Twitter, because that's happened
a couple times. It happened with Spider-Man. And then it
happened with the Odyssey.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They put the full movie out. And you think, well,
this has got to have only been up for five minutes.
Because they would have pulled it out immediately. But you
look and it's got 1.2 million views.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Everybody knows who the dirtbags are. Uh-huh. Meaning everybody knew
about Epstein and Diddy. I had heard Diddy stories, but
I didn't know Diddy. But I'd heard Diddy stories from
people that I know that were like, he's a sleazeball,
the worst.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Really?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And they would say specific things. What am I going
to do?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Say something and not prove it. And then they sue me.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Because it's all hearsay.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Jump in, try to find them in the act. Jump in.
Stop that. Everybody knew about R.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Everybody knew about Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The other one is, Steroids are very common with male actors.
This kind of goes back into the doing things to
look good because your job has you looking good, needs
you to look good.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Every male actor who gains 30 pounds of pure lean
muscle mass in four months isn't eating chicken, broccoli, and
rice just to do it as they say.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What are they doing? Steroids. Oh, they're not bulking got you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Because if you ask them, it's like, yeah, I'd hired
a trainer and then. Look at me. That's what you hear.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah. Like the Tom Holland.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's a similar one that I did, Nashville's Open Secrets.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They're not that dramatic.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sounds dramatic.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That Nashville is way smaller than it looks and seems.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Meaning everybody knows everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
There's a billion dollar music industry here, but everybody knows everybody.
who's hard to work with, who's got a moment right now,
who the climbers are, who the nice guys, the fake Christians,
you know who all of them are.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, that's a fair point.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And everybody knows everything.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It is a very small community, even though it's kind
of a big city.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Another one, being authentic is very much a marketing decision.
If you have to talk about how authentic you are
or how you try to be so authentic, it's mostly
your PR team. Yeah. creating that image. I mean, even
like photo shoots that put you in a place that
looks like real, like again, it's all marketing that your
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favorite artist sometimes doesn't even like the kind of music
they're making.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Ooh, that's a really good one. Dude, that's so true.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Especially, especially early and mid. And sometimes you'll have an
artist that does like this Odd kind of project. And
you go, that's kind of weird for them, but it's
actually the kind of music they wanted to make. Yeah,
you'll hear it later in their career where they're just like, yeah, really,
you know. I made my money.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That people that are overnight success, for the most part,
they've been at it for a decade.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Other than Stella Lefty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now we're mad at her again.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
By the time that most people discover an artist, especially here, Nashville...
Us as a community may have seen that person try
a couple different versions of what you're seeing now.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Great point.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That is cut through.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Great point. Even from like the clothes that they wear.
All kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. Because there are some artists that have really made it,
but we saw them try like a certain style, certain
kind of songs. And then they just, they shift and
pivot and try something else and try something else. And
then when they hit, it's like, wow, this person blew up.
They've been trying different things to make it work.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know, even like I think about like Jimmy Buffett
back in the day, he was a cowboy. Like Jimmy
Buffett was a cowboy, wore cowboy boots, wore cowboy hats
and stuff and lived in Nashville. But once that beach
theme hit, that's what he became.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Finally, it's, and I think if you listen to this
show or watch this show, you know this by now,
but the person singing the song, 50% chance they wrote
a word to it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
A single word. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Because growing up, you just thought the person that sang
the song wrote the song.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I thought George Strait wrote all his songs.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Probably very low percentage.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Turns out he didn't write very many of them.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So I think Nashville, the TV show, for me is
what really showed me how this system works here. Cause
I wasn't living here yet. And it's very much writers
to go to work. They have rights set up by
their publishing companies that pay them to write songs and
they go in, they get there at nine or 10
and they leave at three and they go back home.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They live a.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Seemingly non-creative life except for those six or seven hours.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That's right. It's like going to work like everyone else.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And then they have a different right the next day,
maybe in a different place, maybe the same office with
different people. just rotating in and out. It's very much
a factory.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Even the same with artists. It wasn't until we moved
here until I realized these artists also have a pretty
strict schedule when they tour. They tour on the weekends,
but then they have their Mondays and Tuesdays to have
at home with their families like everyone else. So they
have a weekend. It's just a different day than ours.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I also think that people think touring... is some, hey,
you just go out and go hard. I think that
happens at the very beginning for artists. But by the
time an artist has a massive show or even a
big show, they've been doing it long enough to where
the bloom is off the rose.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And you're just getting there. You're trying to eat right.
You're trying to get your sleep. Now, occasionally there are
those that still go pretty hard drinking-wise.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But I think a lot of these artists go much,
not harder, but softer than you think in that they're
actually homebodies.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. And then what I really like, too, is the
piece of the pie. Like you said, everyone in this
town gets a piece of the pie. It's almost like
it's designed to where everyone is going to work on
an artist, push a song, and then we're all going
to get paid for our families. And it's, yeah, to PR,
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to labels, to artwork, to distribution, tour bus drivers, all
that stuff. It's like that's the way this town is.
Where like everyone just gets a little bit, little piece
of the pie.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
The nicest public persona doesn't even tell you how nice
someone actually is in.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Real life either. Oh, that's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I put that on there. Because it's how they treat
their bus driver, their band, their venue staff.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
There can be an artist that comes in and they
sound so nice. If you hear them or watch a
video clip, you're like, that's cool. They're the coolest person ever.
And they're really a jerk.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Then you have some where you can, they're yelling at
their bus driver.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, ride me, ride me slow.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
What'd he say? Ride me smooth and ride me fast.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, Clay Walker, ride me slow. Ride me fast.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You're like, dang, dude.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
The Bobbycast.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
We'll be right back. And we're back on The Bobbycast.
They put out a list of the top 40 most
influential American radio personalities of all time. Ooh.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Dead and alive.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Do you think I made the list?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes. You have to make the list. This is all time?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All time. Again, dead and alive.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
40? 40. 40. I feel like you're on the list.
I hope you're on the list.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
If you were to bet.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
That you're on the list? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What would you, if I say I bet you a dollar,
what would you bet?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I'll, like what number you're at?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, just I'm on the list.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh yeah. I would probably put like how much money
I'd probably put a hundred dollars on it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
That I'm on the list?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah. A hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
All time?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes. Because I feel like that'll pay me a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh, so you're saying the odds are bad for me then?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean, it's top 40 of all time. So I
just can't think of that many.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So I did make the list.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yes!
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Pay me.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So a fact check selection of the top 40 most
influential American radio personalities of all time, spanning entertainment, music, news, sports,
and talk radio.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Wow, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So I did make the list. I can give you
the top five.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Number one, Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Number two, keep your feet on the ground and keep
reaching for the stars.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Casey Kasem. Casey Kasem.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Number three is maybe not the original, but the biggest...
Conservative talk.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Rush?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Rush. He's dead, but Rush. Number four, and that's the
rest of the story. Paul Harvey? Paul Harvey. I think
that's what he said, right?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Number five, I don't know. I can't give you anything
because I think he was dead maybe before I was born,
but Jack Benny is at number five.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh, yeah. I mean, I know the name. Me too.
I saw a TikTok clip of him recently.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Number six. Now, I didn't know this guy did radio,
so it must have been Black and White Days or
It's Bob Hope.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oh, yeah, dude. All that stuff was on the radio.
All of those Christmas specials and everything, those were all
radio broadcasts.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Number seven is Don Imus.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, Don Imus. NBC, right?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
No. That's pig vomit. Pig virus, actually, but pig vomit
in the movie. Telling Howard Stern to go WNBC.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Eight's Dick Clark. Nine's Larry King.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And then ten is Orson Welles. What do you know
Orson Welles from?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
War of the Worlds. And a bunch of other books.
That freaked everybody out. Yeah. Thinking the aliens were taking over.
So was he a radio broadcaster or like a radio?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
That was him doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Wow. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So we're at 10.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So we have 30 left.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Dude, hold on though. Look at all those names. Like
those are huge, huge, huge names.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I think only one is alive and that's Howard Stern.
Is Don Iman still alive?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
No, he's dead? Okay. Because Casey, Rush, Paul Harvey, Jack Benny,
Bob Hope, Don Imus, Dick Clark, Larry King, Orson Welles,
all dead.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All dead.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So one living.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I didn't know Larry King died.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh, maybe he didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Oh, he's dead. Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I mean, not good, he's dead. But good, I was right.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't know if we were right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, he died in 2021.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Okay, 2021. Where do you think I am on the list?
Just take a guess now. We did the top 10.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I'm going to go 32.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Number 11 is.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Don't know who he is. Walter Winchell. I don't mean
that as disrespect, but it says radio news and commentary.
It must have been forever ago.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Edward R.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Murrow at number 12.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, news. I mean, he was a big man.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
CBS radio news and television. Wolfman Jack at 13. I
just know the pictures and the AM station. Was he
from El Paso?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
He broadcasted out of Mexico. And so the signal was
so powerful that it would come into America. That's why
he was so big.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Why do I think El Paso then?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Because it was probably across the border from El Paso.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Was he Mexican?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I don't know if he was Mexican, but he would
go over there because it was cheaper and his signal
was so strong.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Now he's white.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh, I typed in as Wolfman Jack Mexican. Mike beat
me to it. No, Wolfman Jack was born in Brooklyn,
New York. The Mexican connection is that it became famous
broadcasting from XCRF, a powerful radio station across the border,
right across the border in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Acuna, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay. Okay. We got Wolfman Jack. Art Bell. Mm-mm. Steve
Harvey's at 15. We have another alive person here. There
we go. At 16, Ryan Seacrest. All right.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We're getting close to you.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
And Seacrest for the American Top 40 Countdown.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Delilah at 17. Dude, what a staple. I think Delilah's
been on SNL, like them parodying Delilah.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's how big she is.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Oh, yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Mm-hmm. Elvis Duran at 18. Okay. New York for 40 years.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Dude, I'm going to bump you up. I'm sorry. I
said 32.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Tom Joyner at 19.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know Tom Joyner?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Do I know of him?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Do I know him personally?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Donnie Simpson at 20. At 21, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Wow. 21, dude. That's amazing. That's really, really cool.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Maybe like the sixth alive person.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, because there really haven't been that many.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I was surprised. I was surprised I was even on
the list because mostly I get left out of stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Dude, that makes me emotional. Oh, don't cry on me, man. No, stop.
I'm being serious. Like, that's crazy to me. I put
you at 32 because there are so many, you know,
radio legends out there. And the fact that you are
number 21 out of everyone of all time, dude, that's
quite the accomplishment. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It's also just a random.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Doesn't matter. Okay. I mean, who's below you?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Dave Ramsey at 22.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Oh, that's stupid. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He should be
above you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Rick Dees at 23.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Wow, Rick Dees.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Dr. Demento at 24. Okay, I remember the name.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The 80s?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, probably 90s. I remember Dr. Demento. He would finish
the show with like, I'll storm in the castle. And
he'd do funny songs. I think he broke Weird Al.
That's possibly Dr. Demento's story. I can just roll through
some of these. 25, Garrison Keller. which is the Prairie
Home Companion on NPR. I think you would know his picture.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, probably.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
John Tesh, Jim Rome, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura,
Don McNeil, Fred Allen, Arthur Godfrey, Edgar Bergen, Bing Crosby,
Gene Autry, Charles Osgood, Lowell Thomas, and Red Barber.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Dude, listen to that. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It's a pretty good list.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It's a really good list.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I was excited to see me on the list. I
think they left off Charlemagne.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yes. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I think he easily could have been where I am
in that space right there, Charlemagne the God of New York.
But yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's really cool. Anyone else you think they left off?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It's kind of putting screws to me now. Let me think.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Just anyone that comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I would have said Steve Harvey. I would have said Elvis.
If you would have asked me before, I would have
said Seacrest. I would have said Charlemagne. I would have
covered my bases with our company's big guys.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So smart.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Once I cover that.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You could do people, and this could be my reading
of all the Howard Stern books, but like Mancow. I
never listened to Mancow in Chicago, but he was.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
A Chicago show. This is around the same time as
Howard Stern?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Never listened to, but I know they got in trouble
for the sex in the church and they were kind
of stern enemies. Mark and Brian's a show in LA,
but I'm thinking of these local-ish big shows. I only
know them because Howard Stern fought with them.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
What about Big Boy?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Big Boy's a good one.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah. Surprised he wasn't on that list. Me too.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Big Boy's a great one. I'm glad you said that.
Big Boy's a great one.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Gotta get covered.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
It's amazing, man. That's really, really cool.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Did you ever listen to Dr. Laura?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
My mom listened to Dr. Laura every single day.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, it would be on, at times, on the same
channel that Delilah was on.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah. Was that afternoons?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Because I remember my mom picking me up. It was
in the daytime and she gave out advice.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yes. And she had red glasses.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Oh, you remember her visually?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well, because I think she had a show. I knew it.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Oh, you're thinking of Sally Jesse?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Dude, as soon as I said it, I'm like, I
am mixing two women.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But Dr.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Laura, let me see what she looks like. She might
have had glasses too.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Tell me she had glasses. Tell me they were red.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
No, you're thinking of Sally Jesse for sure. She had
no glasses.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Dr. Laura didn't have glasses?
Speaker 4 (40:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Dr. Laura Schlesinger. No, no glasses.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
No glasses.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I can show you a picture over here.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Wow, I've never seen her before in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Now, if I show you a picture of Sally Jesse.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I know exactly what she looks like, because that's who
I thought Dr. Laura was.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Dr.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Laura, Sally Jesse.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
But you know, these days, people can look up social
media about what do they look like. A lot of
these guys are on TV, Steve Hart, whatever, you're on TV.
But back then, you really had to imagine what they
look like. You really, really did.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, even in my early radio days... Unless you went to.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
A website, which I'm talking about before then.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
No, but even me, I experienced where people didn't know
what I look like.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So it wasn't that long ago that people had to
go and pursue, go to a website, click on a
profile of one of the people on the air, look
at their page and go, oh, that's what they look like.
I remember going to my first radio station ever and
being so shocked at what the DJs actually look like
because their voices sounded really cool.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
And then you would see them and they wouldn't look
as cool as their voices sounded. And I would be
shocked by that. I just never wanted that to be
what happened with me. So I would always talk about
how dorky I looked. Oh, good. So it would be
the opposite.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
So when people met me, they would go.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
He's not that dorky.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Oh, yeah. You're not that weird.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That was your strategy?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
That's smart. I remember the Mad Mexican came to our school.
He was like the local. That's a thing. The Mad Mexican. Okay.
And yeah, same, dude. I picture him, you know, with
a sombrero and like all that. And he was just this,
I think he was white actually. No way. Stop it.
He was white. Scruffy beard.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
The ultimate cultural appropriation.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
So did you have a favorite show that you listened
to growing up that was like your show?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Man, the Mad Mexican was definitely a big part of
my elementary years. of just hearing, I think it was B-104,
I think was the station, and that was their morning show.
That's kind of all I remember. Later in life, I
remember listening to Loveline, loved Loveline.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
At night? Yes. Adam Carolla, Dr.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Drew? Because I worked news, and so I was the cameraman,
and I was just roaming the streets, you know, in
my news truck at night. And what else do I do?
Listen to that. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I had two people that I listened to. One, Bob
Robbins was on Kissin' 96, which was a country station. Now,
he was just on, but he was a DJ.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
He would talk a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Not a show show. Right.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So I listened to him a lot growing up, but
he wasn't someone that I knew his opinions on things
because he just accompanied the music, wore a cowboy hat.
Later before Bob Robbins died, Arkansas Keith would go on
his fishing show with him because Bob Robbins was like
an Arkansas staple and had a fishing show that ran locally.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
So I listened to him, but the show that I
really listened to and thought was crazy was this show
on Magic 105, which was a rock station, a classic
rock station. And it was The Outlaw, Tommy Smith, and
Big Dave. And they would... At the time, I thought
it was the craziest radio ever.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I bet.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
And they'd just be like talking about boobs. And it
was very much a Southern Howard Stern ripoff. But I
didn't know Howard Stern. So I didn't know that. I
just thought, these guys are crazy. People would call in,
saying if they saw like a nice butt yesterday and where.
It was just... I thought it was insane. I was
12 and I would listen to this and go, oh,
this is crazy. So I would listen to that show.
(44:05):
I'd make a point to listen to that show every morning.
I'd put it on to hear what crazy thing they
were talking about. Later on, I went to work. It
was my second station ever. My first time working at
the time, Clear Channel. But I'd worked in Hot Springs
at KLAZ, which was its own private company. I'd moved
to Little Rock and started working for Clear Channel, which
turned into iHeartRadio. And I was working at a station
(44:27):
called Q100. And it was the same company that had
the outlaw Tommy Smith and big Dave, and they were
still on at the time.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
No way.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
And I'm probably 21 or 22. It was right before
I moved to Austin and I never got to know them,
but I saw Tommy Smith walk in the halls and
I thought, I'm going to go tell him that I'm
a fan. And he thought I was an intern and
asked me to get him coffee.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
No, that was your introduction to Tommy. Wow. Did that
make you mad or were you just kind of like, whatever?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I don't know that it made me mad. I was
a kid.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
And I don't think I was whatever. I think I
was rooting for a better interaction.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Sure. Of course.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Because I had listened to him forever, but also I
got him coffee.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
He asked for coffee.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
What are you going to do? And I don't, I
never talked to him again. I never had the chance
to talk to him again. I don't know if he's
alive right now. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
But.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Because if he's alive, that'd be cool to hear his,
you know, like, Hey man.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Oh, there's no, he doesn't remember that. I was just like,
I never told him.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
You never got to that point, which is telling that
you were a big fan.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
No, I never went back and tapped him on the
shoulder to say, hey, I also work here.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I'm on the air.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I'm number 21 on the list of all-time radio personalities.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Is Tommy the Outlaw Smith?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
He retired in 2021.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Okay. Okay. Maybe he's hanging around. Let me ask.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Do you see if he's alive?
Speaker 5 (45:52):
He came back to radio in 2024.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh. Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
So probably he's alive. He just isn't on... Anywhere. But yeah,
that's my experience. I had a similar one with Bob
Cole when I moved to Austin.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
Right after Bob Cole was at KVAC, the big country station,
and he was the big country guy. And he also
thought I was an intern. Walk in the hallways.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And Bob Cole was Mr.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Austin. Yeah, very much so. Tommy, the outlaw, Smith, longtime
Little Rock radio host, appears to be alive.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Oh, wow. Man, you should get a hold of him.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And tell them, just, you know what? I never got
to tell you, man. I was a big fan of yours.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
I just sent him a letter of my sheet of
paper here where I'm number 21. Yeah, so that was
the crazy morning show that we would listen to.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Mike, do you have a show?
Speaker 5 (46:39):
Yeah, Kid Craddock in the Morning. Growing up in Dallas,
that's all we listened to. If I didn't listen to
that show, I wouldn't be here now. That's what got
me into listening to morning radio.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Did you ever meet Kid Craddock?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
A couple times.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
He died.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
He died of like a brain aneurysm. He was on
a golf course.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
I remember that. I remember we had just moved to
Nashville when that happened.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
I think too that the show is still called The
Kid Karatek in the Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah, still doing it.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
No, it's still called that.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, now I know. Even though he's not there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Which is what we're going to do when you die.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No. I'll have Caitlin Sue get my name off of that.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
The Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Get my name off of that. One final thing.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Bands.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
That you'd like to see get back together.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
So I've got a list. The reason I bring it
up is because I've really been rooting for Barenaked Ladies
to get Steven, their old lead singer, back in.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Are they broken up?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Oh, they have been forever.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
And so he was the vocalist, and Ed is the
guy that would kind of do the raps and be funny.
Ed does all the vocals now and has for a
long time. But I watch Steven's Instagram Live sometime, and
he'll perform. great singer, but he was, uh, you know,
broken to the old apartment.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
This is where we.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Used to live.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
So because I watch both of them, I'd love for
them to get back together. I think he got into
some trouble. They kicked him out of the band. Seems
like it's not good. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
For me as a bare naked ladies fan, who comes
to mind for you now? Is this, is this cause they're,
they just broke up or they gotta be alive.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Okay. We're not bringing anyone out of the dead. Um,
I guess the first thing that comes to my mind
would probably be Journey. I would like to see Journey
get back together with.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Did they for a minute? With Steve Perry?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
I don't think so. I think the new singer is kind.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Of– Maybe they almost kicked out the new singer as well.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
They hired another one.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (48:37):
I think they did almost kick him out, yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
Oh, no.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Uh-oh. Common denominator. The band. The band.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
I think he wanted to stop touring and they're like,
we got to keep touring.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I've seen some stories about bands that have none of
the original members that are still touring.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Oh, Beach Boys?
Speaker 1 (48:53):
No, they have some. Oh, I think there's... Like Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Just think it's Mike Love.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
That's fine. But this story is none of the original members.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Wait, so who's the band?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
For example... Oh, okay. I wanna know what love is. Foreigner? Foreigner.
I don't think Foreigner has any original members in it.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
No way. Their wives should sue. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Let me ask. How many bands are touring with no...
original now another one was Leonard Skinner.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Okay I thought about that because they're all cousins right.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
And to be fair the lead singer I think his
brother is now the lead singer yeah something like that
but he wasn't originally in the band and there are
no surviving members of Leonard Skinner they're also in the
band yeah that one I don't mind as much because
tragedy was the reason that the band went down sure Um,
so Leonard Skinner, I think foreigners one, I saw a
(49:46):
whole list of it, but that's interesting. Do you see
any other ones?
Speaker 2 (49:49):
I see.
Speaker 5 (49:50):
That's a bunch of old bands, the platters, the drifters, coasters,
four tops.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
So all those old doo-wop bands, but, but so, so
none of them are original members and they just go
tour and sing those songs. Yeah. That seems like just
a legal nightmare.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
There's also, and I forget who, but he's, He lists
himself as still in the band, but the whole band
tours without him, and he never goes on the road
with them. I find out who that is, but to him,
it's just the band goes out and makes money, and
he takes a piece of it.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
No way.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, and he doesn't act.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
That's kind of like how Brian Wilson did it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well, Brian Wilson did Stay Back, but he was in
the studio while the rest of the guys went out.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Making the records.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Let me see, because I'm pretty sure Foreigner is one
of those as well. Foreigner is definitely one. Oh, Kansas
was one. Kansas was one of them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
So when we did our Million Dollar Show and Foreigner
came and played, who was that dude?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I don't know, but he sounded just like him.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Just a rando?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
So, this is who I'm talking about. So, it says,
founding guitarist Mick Jones is still involved with the band,
but he doesn't tour.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
That's Kansas?
Speaker 1 (50:49):
No, Foreigner.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Oh, Foreigner.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Original singer Lou Graham makes occasional guest appearances, but Generally,
when Foreigner's out playing concerts, there's no original members.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
No way.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
In Kansas, no original members, supposedly, allegedly.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I wonder if the people buying tickets and going to
that know that.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
No, because I wouldn't have unless I saw a story
about it.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
Right, right, right. So you go thinking like, ah, wow,
I'm watching Kansas. No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
The other ones I'd put together are, and Hootie has.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
That would have been one. And Oasis has.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Oh, Oasis. But I guess I forgot about them because, yeah,
they're back together.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
But they're only kind of back together because it's just
the two brothers. I don't think they brought back the
other guys in the band.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Who were the other guys in the band?
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I don't know, but they were always as a band.
They just had two brothers plus two other dudes, right? Yeah.
And those guys, I don't know that they're back.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
And then even when they started, the brothers weren't even
together that long, right? They broke up pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
The Black Crows. That's not the whole band.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's the two brothers.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
It's the two brothers.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
But they're back.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
And to be fair, that was only one member.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
I saw a picture of an album cover from them,
and there were like five guys in the Black Crows. Oh, really?
Speaker 2 (51:52):
At the very beginning?
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Well, Counting Crows. Let's go Counting Crows.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yeah, but most of those guys are still there. More
than one or two.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Just a couple.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Rage Against the Machine would be a good one.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Oh, that's really... I'd love to see them get back together.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
Dwight Strives would be fun.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
That'd be cool, too. R.E.M. Oh, I didn't know they
were broken up.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
They're not playing shows that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So if they just go on a break, they're kind
of getting them back together? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
But play the hits. I saw an R.E.M. show once
and there were no hits.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
What did they play? An album?
Speaker 1 (52:21):
The whole new album front to back. Outkast oh yeah
that'd be awesome although even when Speakerboxd Love Below came
out that was like two separate albums and they were
just together but they did two separate records so I
don't even think they were together when they were together
yeah I think they were just creating music under the
Outkast label because it was a double album because I
(52:43):
like the way you move was Big Boy and then
that's right.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Shake It Shake It that's Andre.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
And they weren't on each other's songs for the most
part I also have NSYNC.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
They'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
They would.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
If the Backstreet Boys are doing Vegas and the Sphere
and making all that money, NSYNC would do 1.7 times that.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
I just feel bad for them because they're older dudes
trying to do those moves and everything.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
So are Backstreet Boys, and that's fun and cool.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
They're the same age. I know. I know.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Do you feel bad for Backstreet Boys on making all
that money and everybody's dressed all in white?
Speaker 2 (53:20):
No, I feel I'm happy for them that they make
a lot of money. I feel bad that they have
to make do the dances still. I bet they would
love to just stand there and sing and not dance.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Yeah, but you have to dance.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
You have to. All right.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
That's it. Thank you, everybody. And we did a science experiment.
We reunited bands. We talked about controversies in country music
or a kind of the lack thereof this year.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
There weren't any real big ones. We talked about that
everybody in Hollywood has genital herpes, apparently.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
That's bizarre.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
And then even things in Nashville that you may not
know that kind of everybody here also knows and understands. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
And you being part of that list?
Speaker 1 (53:57):
That's right. And me being part of that list. I
only found that this morning. It popped up in my algorithm.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
And it wasn't sent to me. I didn't know about it.
It just popped up. And I thought, oh, here's a
list I've surely been left off of.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Hey, Muse, can you make me a big poster of
this list? Have it to me by Tuesday. See, I'm
going to get amused. Good one.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
All right, that's it. Thank you guys for watching and listening.
If you're listening on podcast, if you're watching on Netflix,
thank you so much for watching. We will see you
guys next time.
Speaker 4 (54:25):
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